[SOLVED] Default Date Format

[silvo3070]

Hi, I know this will be basic.. apologies , however I'm one of those people who is non technical user and have been using LL for several years..

I just installed 7.6  

How do I change the date format from US to UK? ( I'm located in Australia)  When I installed LL I set the region to Australia.

I googled and found this   https://linuxopsys.com/change-default-da...t-in-linux

from this guidance I found that locale shows LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

I have edited en_US file to update the formats however it has had no effect..  

The en_AU file looks fine.. however I cant see that it is being used   

Any help would be appreciated... I'm happy to re-intsall if I have to 

Thanks and kind regards

[stevef]

Editing the en_US.UTF-8 file is a bit unconventional as it means a non-standard locale set up, that said, it shouldn't be a problem

The normal approach would be to change the locale so the whole system uses the appropriate en_AU files.

Click Menu and begin typing 'language' into the search box.
When you see 'Language Settings' offered as a choice, click on it.

The system will check for extra language support options and may offer to download and install extra options.
If it does, click 'Remind Me Later'

In the window that opens you will see a Language Tab.
This tab is for Desktop.

Possible Language settings will be listed in preference order.
The system will try to use the languages in the list order.
The last active entry on the list will be 'English'
Any Entries below 'English' will be greyed out
Check for the English (Australia) line.
If it is not at the top of the list, click on it and drag it to the top.
If English (US) is above English, you can drag it below
Wait while the system makes the changes.

Then click the Regional Formats tab
This is for terminal operations.
Click the pull down and select English (Australia)

Click Close

Restart the system

Individual applications may not respect this system wide change.
If so, let us know - there will usually be the option within the application to set it.

[silvo3070]

Thanks stevef, Greatly appreciated. All is OK now.
I'm very grateful Cheers